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The head of Jobs's oncology team was Stanford University's George Fisher, a leading researcher on gastrointestinal and colorectal cancers.
喬布斯的腫瘤治療團隊的負責人是斯坦福大學的喬治·費希爾，他是胃腸癌和結直腸癌領域的知名專家。
He had been warning Jobs for months that he might have to consider a liver transplant,
他已經警告了喬布斯幾個月時間，說他可能必須要考慮肝移植，
but that was the type of information that Jobs resisted processing.
但是這種信息是喬布斯拒絕接納的。
Powell was glad that Fisher kept raising the possibility,
鮑威爾很高興費希爾能反復提出這種可能性，
because she knew it would take repeated proddings to get her husband to consider the idea.
因為她知道她丈夫要經過反復刺激才會考慮這個建議。
He finally became convinced in January 2009, just after he claimed his "hormonal imbalance" could be treated easily.
2009年1月，就在他宣稱他的“荷爾蒙失調”很容易治療之后，喬布斯終于被說服了。
But there was a problem. He was put on the wait list for a liver transplant in California,
但是還有一個問題。他在加利福尼亞登記等待肝移植，
but it became clear he would never get one there in time.
但是很顯然，他在那兒根本來不及等到一個可移植的肝臟。
The number of available donors with his blood type was small.
跟他的血型匹配的捐獻者數量很小。
Also, the metrics used by the United Network for Organ Sharing, which establishes policies in the United States,
加上制定美國器官移植政策的機構--器官共享聯合網絡所采用的機制，
favored those suffering from cirrhosis and hepatitis over cancer patients.
是優先考慮肝硬化和肝炎病人而非癌癥病人。
There is no legal way for a patient, even one as wealthy as Jobs, to jump the queue, and he didn't.
病人沒有合法途徑在排位過程中插隊，即使是像喬布斯這樣富有的人也不行，他也沒有那樣做。
Recipients are chosen based on their MELD score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease),
器官接受者是根據他們的終末期肝病模型評分結果被選中的，
which uses lab tests of hormone levels to determine how urgently a transplant is needed, and on the length of time they have been waiting.
該模型通過實驗室檢測荷爾蒙水平來決定移植需求的迫切性，同時也考慮病人已經等待的時間。
Every donation is closely audited, data are available on public websites (optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/),
每一例捐獻都被嚴格審計，公開網站上能查到相關數據，
and you can monitor your status on the wait list at any time.
你可以在任何時候上網查看你的排位情況。
